Chapter 9-Tournament of 4th year part 2
As Harry made it down to the library, Minerva had arrived at the door of the guest quarters, the ministry official's incharge of the Triwizard Tournament were using while during their stay and knocked, before waiting for entry. 10 after knocking, Minerva had gone inside and met with the tournament officials, where she got down to explaining that Harry has a larger risk to his health, during the second challenge, than the others will because his: Arctic Aura, would simply freeze all water in his surrounds and that Harry will have a chance of suffocating by ice entombment.
Now in the library, where Harry had gone and began his research in the magical waters selection, with the goal of learning how to complete his part of the tournaments second game and ultimately starting with a way of perminately blocking his aura, as he believes that while Minerva would want something down, Dumbledore would most likely dispel it and say something like, 'It is against the rules, for Harry to receive help from staff,' before having the judges replaced and simply letting the Harry die. Now returning to Pro. McGonagall, as she finishes explaining the problem to the wide-eyed council, all of whom had one thought, 'Fuck me, sideways,' before Barty Crouch interjects with, "Hmmm.. well the problem is that Harry must do the challenge, we can't change it now that the clues have been made, but however: we can cast warming and anti-freezing charms on the waters surface and in the water itself, while also making sure that the sea life in the lake are unharmed," before the rest of the judges joined in and offered their own suggestions, while they dismissed the Professor and brainstormed alone.
Though now in the Headmasters office, as the 'Headmaster,' himself paced the floor of his, 'office,' while looking utterly furious, he was pissed because the tournament had shown that his, 'weapon,' Harry Potter is a whole lot stronger than he wanted him to be, while also being annoyed that another one of his potions failed to net some results, as well as being pissed off at his Potions Master; for not treating Harry like his father and belittle him, by being fair and even awarded points to Gryffindors for the correct brewing of a potion, but that was not the biggest thing he had to deal with, as the school wards were still bound to Harry and Dumbles was finding it hard to sever the bond, you see not only was the school rightfully Harrys in terms of controlling the wards, which of whom had also added more updated wards to protect school inhabitants from outside forces, wards that not even the Elder wand and Deathly Hallow could break, though not for a lack of trying.
Though returning now to the library, as Harry was now joined his girlfriend Ginny and Hermione as they help Harry researched ways of helping Harry threw the next challenge. After hours of scowering threw the text in the library, only to come up with two options: Gillyweed and the Bubblehead charm, both of which are extremely difficult to get, since Gillyweed is a controlled substance, while the bubblehead is a hard charm to cast silently, though Harry did have a secondary non-magical option available: an aqua lung (those portable ones with the with a filter and 2 small gas cylinders on each side), but to get one he'd need to have Hedwig (his Familial Owl he had purchased) sent home and get his family to send him one, but the problem was Hedwig was still with the Weasley, from when Ginny messaged her mother about Rons strange behavior, and school supplied owls have their letters and items scanned, making it potentially impossible to allow for the mailing of muggle items.
Time Skip to the next day:
The afternoon in the library, until it was close to curfew, by: Harry and his study parteners was spent yesterday, Harry and Ginny decided it was time for a break and as it was a day of classes over a weekend, Hermione had been forced to agree, and although the 4th years had a free period that morning, Hermione felt it best to return to the library to study her assignments, so with that decided for both of them (Harry was going study to practical applications of Ancient runes though), Harry, Hermione and Ginny, descent to the Great Hall for breakfast and found a seat near Lavender and Pavarti, whom of which immediately greeted the girls and Harry, before Harry tuned them out so the girls could speak privately, as they ate their breakfast. During breakfast, Dumbledore was now observing the group of five, believing that his potions on Harry were finally work, as it appears that Ginny and Harry were ignoring each other (well the looks and what is are different, as Dumbledore couldn't hear what the girls were talking about), while back in Harry's P.O.V. as he felt a nagging feeling of being watched, as he then looked around scanning the hall, where he then stumbled onto the gaze of the, 'Headmaster,' and notice the masked look of triumph, on the mans face and knew what he was thinking, before heading into the conversation with the girls. (By then the girls had moved to less girly topics)
10 minutes after their joining, the girls' conversations, Harry had the girls follow him, as he could explain why he bursted into their talks and apologize to them, which when they discovered the reason: Lavender and Pavarti forgave him, along with Hermione and Ginny, though they had already suspected the reasons and didn't say anything. After that, Harry and the fourth year girls headed for the library via dropping off Ginny at her Charms class, where they claimed the largest table and before the girls sent Harry off for the books, both they and Harry needed for their assignments, which for Lavender and Pavarti were books on divination, while Hermione required a book on arythmancy and Harry needed a book on Elemental magic, where girls had then set up the area for study.
(A/N Lavender and Pavarti are quite intelligent in this fan fiction and not dunces, however they can get lazy at times, hence they've got divination as electorial subjects.)
After the free study period had finished, the girls and Harry were finished with the homework and were now heading towards the dungeons for their potions class. Potions class itself was an odd experience, as Professor Snape had actually taught the class by: having the class sit down and went on to have the class read the chapter of book about the potion they were to work on, before having the students ask question about how the ingredients work and where they believe they could be improved, then after that have them begin the potion and hand it in for marking, after they had finished it, and well the Slytherins thought it was unfair, so they had tried to change that by: telling their parents, whom could not do anything or by: going to Snape and ordering him to, but that had got them detentions, equaling: three to four weeks.
Then back with the officials of the tournament, as they head down to the Black Lake and discuss Harry problem with the Merpeople, to see if the solution they came up with is viable, while back in the headmasters office, where Dumbledore was again working on a new potion for him to use on Harry, when he notice the officials down by the lake, talking to the Merchief and thinking of a good time use it to the advantage of himself, while the potion was in its finally stages of simmering and headed down there. Once Dumbledore got down to the lake, he had notice the officials were now spaced out evenly as they aimed their wands at the water, thinking they were fixing the tournament so only whom they wanted to win had won, Dumbledore whipped out his wand and cast, "Expelliarmus Maxima," disarming each and every member, before demanding, "What are you doing?" "It has come to our attention that a factor of a competitor safety we have overlook!" a professional Barty announced, before seeing the confused look on Dumbledore face and elaborated, "Harry Potter of Lin Kuei Academy, is unable to enter a body of water without it freezing and if he were to dive deep down, he'll become entombed by ice and suffocate," that was when the others retrieved their wands and resumed their casting, only to be disarmed and discourage into resuming.
Time skip; several weeks:
It was now the holiday and the night of the Yule Ball was approaching, with the excitement rising in most of the older students, along with Harry and his (Girl)friend/s, and the general groan of the guys in Harry year, you see if the tournament selection went way it meant to then only students whom were 16 and over would attend, now however with Harry a champion and fourth year, the whole school – save 1st and 2nd year, had to attend, but not many could get a date and Harry being the freaking Boy who Lived, was now been pummeled with date and/or dance requests, but while the date request were rejected as Harry had asked Ginny the moment his name had been chosen by the Goblet, the save a dance requests were accepted and soon he and Ginny had amassed a large amount of people they'd have to dance with when they weren't dancing with each other. Meanwhile Dumbledore was furious, the girls he sent to get Harry away for Ginny had failed, leaving him with little to do but let it slide and hope to the gods that Molly Weasley still trusted him, if not then he'd have to expel Ginny for the school and manipulate people into forcing her to have a fatal accident.
Now it is time to see the work of the Defenders of Earthrealm, where we find Sub-Zero facing down his reptilian like opponent called: Reptile, as Steve performs an ice slide between the bruisers legs and then deliver a sweeping dragon kick, as an attempt to remove Reptile's legs from the equation, although because of the reflexes of the Lizard-esk ninja, Steve missed the legs and had to roll to safety before he got trodden on by Reptile's ace-kick, where Sub-Zero then delivered a devastingly powerful uppercut to Reptile's chin, causing the lizard man to be launched into the air, but Reptile was not finished off by that move and vanished into thin air, Steve however had anticipated this and began to act accordingly by: funneling as much Lin Kuei ice chakra into the ground and atmosphere, causing the desert battle ground to change into a frozen wasteland.
Back to Hogwarts, where it is now Christmas Eve and the night of the Yule Ball had come, and in the Gryffindor commonroom shows; Harry decked out in a ceremonial Lin Kuei dress robes, consisting of: a jet black, baggy pair of martial arts pants, along with an also black, hooded (the hood has a removable faceplate) and tight long sleeve shirt, under an arctic blue martial arts vest that hung to his body loosely, under a frost white trenchrobe, which sported golden kanji that meant – ice, along the hem and formalized black combat boots, as he waited for his date Ginny to arrive, while also getting looks of envy from those whom are attending and a scowl from Ron who was not going due to a detention. Now up in the Girls Dormitory, Ginny and the fourth years girls were now putting the finishing touches on their Ball outfits, but however it was Ginny whom was the one to stand out the most, with her dressed in: a flowing emerald green gown, that stopped at her ankles and had a frost silver embroidery in the shape of kanji for snow on the back, while her feet were framed by ice white pair of heeled sandals and her hair was tied up into a French knot, that was held in place by an emerald green tiara, all of which made the girls older than her jealous, while admiring her.
(A/N okay I'm being lazy, but the ball went off without a hitch and the only thing to actually happen was that Dumbledore attempted to break in to Harrys mind and use Legitamens to force Harry's submission, only for Dumbles to get a large amount of brain freeze.)
Time skip the rest of the Christmas holidays and to the start of the second challenge:
As Harry now on a jetty over the black lake, preparing for what he believes to be a fatal test for him, as Minerva was able to inform him that Dumbledore had thwarted all plans to ensure his safety and he was about to jump into his icy tomb. Meanwhile, the judges were now looking in fear, as they notice Harrys icy aura already effecting the waters surface and there had been nothing they could do on the threat of being removed from the judges panel, then back to the contestants as: Harry patted his pocket, to ensure the aqua lung was still in there and then took a side on glance at to on his left: Cedric and Viktor, while Fleur(where he glanced to next) was on his left and found they were looking at the spot under his feet, but didn't look himself as he knew water was freezing over the surface. Then several minutes later, the siren rung out and signaled the beginning of the task, causing the three older competitors to dive into the water and Harry to flop into the water, as he had been pushed by Moody, whom was ordered by Dumbledore to ensure of Harry participation.
To be continued.
